Multimedia Contest
RULES & INFORMATION
The Freedom Festival Multimedia contest has joined with the Utah High School Film Festival. Utah high school students can win up to $200. Prizes are as follows: 1st Place $200, 2nd place $150, and 3rd place $100.
Entries will be collected through Utah high schools. All entries must be submitted by Friday April 3rd at 4:00pm.
Purpose: The Freedom Festival encourages students to educate themselves about the principles required to establish and maintain freedom, examples of people obtaining and preserving freedom, and the opportunities and challenges it entails.
Each entry must adhere to the following guidelines
- Media: Students are invited to creatively communicate their understanding of the theme (patriotic) through various media, video, audio, Powerpoint, Flash, animation, slideshow.
- Entries: Each student may submit only one entry (but may also participate in the Speech or Essay contest). Up to three students may work on a media entry.
- Eligibility: The contest is open to all Utah high school students (public, private or home schools). Up to 3 students may work together on a single entry; any award will be split evenly between the team members.
- Format: Each entry must be self-contained on mini dv video tape at SP (standard play).
- Theme: Each entry should present a patriotic theme.
- Time Length: 60 seconds. Points will be deducted for seconds over or under the limit.
- Standards: Each entry should contain material suitable for a family audience and should not contain objectionable material.
- Copyright: Each entry must adhere to fair use guidelines.
- Originality: Each entry must be the student’s own work.
Questions: Questions may be directed to jmamaddox@gmail.com.
Judging criteria: Entries will be judged on adherence to theme, originality, storyline, and technical merit, ( timing, spacing, aesthetics, staging, etc).
Winning entries will be announced at the Utah High School Film Festival on April 29th at UVU. Finalists’ videos will also be shown during the Hope of America preshow on May 6th.
Coordinator(s): Julie Maddox – jmamaddox@gmail.com
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